Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee
10 November 2026
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Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Actual start House of Commons
Follow its sittings22:59 - 23:24
Speaker 2
Order. Welcome to today's session of the Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, as we open our inquiry into export support. Thank you very much indeed to our witnesses for joining us. This first panel is going to look at the particular opportunities and challenges around defense exports. Nathan, you're from ADS.
Just give us a sense about what the opportunities for the UK look like in the defense exports space.
23:24 - 23:56
Speaker 3
Thank you for having me. For our members looking ahead in the defence space, we've been on an upwards trajectory in terms of our growth. From an export perspective, we've seen around a third increase in the last decade.
A third, yeah. Defence exports are a bit of a funny thing because they're quite lumpy in terms of how they translate on a year-on-year basis. So, we count it on a five-year rolling average, but we assess that we're 10.8 billion pounds worth of export sales on a five-year basis in 2025.
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